This man has turned his home into a small tea house. But nobody comes to drink his tea. He is about to retreat to a darker part of his house. I made this image just before he left me -- it is almost as if I am trying to hold him back from the darkness that calls him. It is such a painful picture for me to look at. I feel the loneliness that seems to be slowly draining the life from this man.
2. One Door Open, Another Shut, Suzhou, China, 2004
As I left his tea house, I couldn't help but look back at this unforgettable man. He is still wandering around in the darkness, as if his soul had been locked in a box.
I see a bench that he couldn't sit on, warm sunshine that he couldn't come out and enjoy. He opens just one of his two doors, hoping someone might wish to come in and drink his tea, yet, at the same time, he shuts the other door -- showing me that his heart is closed to life and all who might share it with him.
Though I don't see perfection in these images, the man's loneliness you're trying to deliever obviously touchs me as well as others whoever are as sensitive as me.
We've already taken too many pictures without thinking; we've been living for a long time without feeling. Now it's time to shoot not only with our eye but also with our heart.
I can see a good taste in your photos, and I believe the ones you posted here are just a part of a series--which would tell a true story under your concern.
Also, you'are posting great comments in a ponderous style, which I belive will help the photographers out here to a great extent. Thank you An an, you are doing very well and please keep going.
Thank you for your encouragement! You are so right. I think I have been taking so many mindless and meaningless pretty pictures for so long, and just realized what I was doing is just repeating myself and there is really no point for me to continue.
The most important thing in photography is to express ideas, is to communicate. To make viewers to think, feel and care, just as you did here. I am glad you can feel what I feel and see what I see. And I am not striving for perfection either because life will never be perfect and I don't want to add pretty layers on the top of the reality.
Only a little regret that I didn't know about all this when I was in Vancouver, if so I would join you guys to explore excitements in the photographic world..
Taking pretty pictures is merely the first step everyone inevitalbly takes because usually we are initially encouraged by it. But due to the different culture in Canada, the photographers here have different taste and style. Staying wealthy and enjoying life is more likely their philosophy.
At the beginning, I regularly attended the meeting of the photographic clubs and had been stuck for a long time before I realized what I wanted. Then, after I read some books and met Xiaoxiao, Xi'an, I decided no longer to shoot the same things as I'd done before. So afterwords, I shot fewer but thought more. Althouth sometimes I felt perplexed and depressed, I knew I was making progress. So were Xi'an and Xiaoxiao.
From time to time, we all see your talents in photography and expect you have more good works coming.
It takes time to find what we really want, and needs courage to pursue what we believe in.
And you are luck enough to have companies like Xi an and Xiao xiao along the journey of discovery. And I feel also lucky to have you guys, who I can share thoughts and learn new things from.
I try to be honest with every picture of others I see and I always tell what I like and don't like. I hope everyone here can pour your thoughts and tell me what you like and don't like in my pictures. So that we all can learn and that is what it really about! Right?
Very touchy. I like the first one very much as if I can feel the lonlyness and sadness washing over me from the pictures. Looking forward more from you.
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